I should know this, but....ethernet question

I got three machines that need to share a single ethernet port. The port is connected (I guess) to a Big Router somewhere. Plugging a single machine into this port works groovily. So I got me a little four port hub from Netgear, which has one port that can be an uplink. So I connect the uplink port to the wall jack and the uplink light goes on. Score. I connect the other three machines to the other three ports, and they can’t see the network.

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Help.

There is supposed to be a crossover/no crossover switch on the back of the unit somewhere…? There is on my hub, anyways. Whatever it is set to, try flipping it the other way.

There is such a switch, and I tried it both ways, but no dice.

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Apologies in advance for asking what might be received as an insulting question, but can your machines see the network when you connect them directly to the wall socket?

Apologies in advance also for perhaps posting a reply that makes it appear that I don’t read OPs before attempting to respond to them…

OK, I’m sitting here with a Netgear hub myself. The wire to the godforsaken DSL modem plugs into port #4, the one with the normal/uplink choice associated with it. It is turned off. Port 1 has one computer, Port 2 another. I turn on PC MacLan File Services on the PC and a moment later can see the C drive from the PC over AppleShare on the Mac, ergo peer-to-peer networking successful.

On good days when BellAtlantic bothers to provide us with a functioning DSL connection to the internet–a haphazard occurrence at best–we can both access it, concurrently.

With the Westell Infospeed DSL modem from BellAtlantic, we have a router embedded in the modem; otherwise, I understand, we would need a router and not merely a hub in order to pull this off. Perhaps therein lies your problem?

(But if it is straight ethernet TCP/IP service such as one would have in a business office, you should not need a router, a hub should do).

One of the patch cables was shorted out. All is groovy now.